I’m not always willing to offer assistance randomly online. Why not? Well, on the one hand, I’m more than familiar with the old adage: “If you want to recognize the innovator, he’s the one with all the arrows in his back.” If you get my drift with that one, it suggests that I might be better off sitting back and allowing someone else to struggle — as I had to years ago, or let them go through the process of trial and error (and maybe solve the problem in some unknown future decade). Okay, so I had a weak moment…
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That featured photo up there may have confused some of my long time readers but, I think you’ll soon understand its meaning… Ya, I begin this entry with one of my favorite sayings, this one borrowed from the late, great Soviet hockey coach, Anatoli Tarasov. As I recall, “The Father of Russian Hockey” was referring to his players taking pride in doing their jobs — whatever those jobs might be. What he did was quote someone famous in Russian theater, noting that: “There are no small roles, only small actors.” As you’ve probably come to know, something always seems to…
While this one originated with a question from a long time high school hockey coach, my answer probably isn’t going to exactly get too much into what he expects. Oh, it’ll be good stuff for him, but I’m going to go a little bit beyond what he’s asking in order to really help his player and my faithful members. Let me start by pasting in part of the email from that coach… “Dennis. For the first time in my coaching career I am stumped. I coach high school hockey and usually by this age I don’t have to teach a…
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As sort of a background to our study on genes, I thought members would be helped to discover how new that study is. As quoted in Wikipedia: “In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA. The genome includes both the genes and the noncoding DNA, as well as mitochondrial DNA and chloroplast DNA. The study of the genome is called genomics. I don’t believe the volunteer coach, the average youth hockey parent, or the typical adult rec player has to know this part of science as well…
Before reading this posts, members might like to get some further scientific background on genetics in “A Brief History of Studying Genes“. In what will likely be a three-part discussion on the human building blocks known as “genes”, I’m going to ask my long time friend and trusted advisor on such matters, Shaun Goodsell, MA, President and CEO of Mental Edge, to kick things off with something he labeled… “The Secret of Champions” For years I have wondered what part innate talent plays in the success of athletes. Growing up aspiring to be a pro athlete I thought on many…